Amelia E. Barr - Jan Vedder's wife (1885)

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It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia E. Barr
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world... may be wrong.

Amelia E. Barr
When one gets near the grave, Margaret, there is a little light from beyond, and many things are seen not seen before.

Amelia E. Barr
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Amelia E. Barr
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

Amelia E. Barr
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Amelia E. Barr
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia E. Barr
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Amelia E. Barr
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Amelia E. Barr
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Amelia E. Barr